Improvement in guides for sewing-machines



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

CHARLES BENEDICT AND O. R. FYLER, OF WOLCOTTVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN GUIDES FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 81,466, dated August25, 1868.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES BENEDIcT and O. R. FYLER,v of Wolcottville,in the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Gages for Sewing-Machines; and we dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of thesame, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of this specification, in Whichl Figure 1represents an inverted plan view of a gage for sewing-.machinesconstructed according to our improvement, illustrating the groove andunder side of the iiange. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal view of thesame as it belongs on the machine; and Fig. 3 represents the edgewiseview of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending parts in the severalfigures.

This invention consists in a novel construction of a gage forsewing-machines, whereby to understand the construction and operation ofp our invention, we will proceed to describe it with reference to thedrawings.

The gage A is provided with the usual longitudinal slot s through itscenter for its attachment, by means of a screw, to the clothplate of themachine. This frame A is provided on one extremity with a curved guidingedge or face, in which is provided a groove, o, in or through whichpasses the edge of the cloth or other material. On the upper side ofthis groove c is a iiange, b, for the purpose of lapping over the edgeof the cloth, and retaining it within the groove c, and preventing itfrom oversliding the gage during the operation of sewing. Near thecentral portion of this flange b is provided a notch, a, for the passageof the needle when it is necessary to set the gage very close, suchbeing the case in taking very narrow hems.

What We claim as our invention, and desire to have secured by LettersPatent, is

The gage constructed with a curved groove and hanged face, substantiallyas herein described.

Witnesses:

J. S. WORKMAN, J. H. ATKINs.

